Some people feel that governments should take a large proportion of people’s salaries to pay for necessary public services such as roads and schools. Others feel that high taxes are a bad thing. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

There is a growing concern in many countries about how to use taxes. Many people are convinced that

authorities

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the authorities

should

rise

raise the level or amount of something

raise

taxes to pay for essential

pubic

not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole

public

services

such

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as roads and schools, while others believe that

high

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higher

taxes would cause some detrimental effects. On the one hand, advocates of increasing tariffs say that these would have

significantly

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significant

positive impacts on the communities. They argue that more taxes collected means better funds for public services. In fact, all the

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existing

public facilities

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as education, military forces, hospitals or infrastructures

are rely

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rely

on

state budget

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the state budget

, which usually earn no profit. In order to have sufficient resources, higher taxes would be an inevitable trend.

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, the money coming from those taxes could be used to build more schools for children or upgrade roads

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of lending money from investors.

On the other hand

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, opponents of

governments

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government's

government

tax collection hold a view that raising tariff could do more harm than good to social

wellfare

governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need

welfare

and services. Since businesses are the one who pay taxes, higher tariffs would cut the foundation of those companies.

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, it would bring small companies or

entreprenuers

someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it

entrepreneurs

to the verge of bankruptcy, which might cause an upsurge in unemployment rate. Apparently, when people are

unemployees

not engaged in a gainful occupation

unemployed

, there would be less taxes to collect, leading to a lower state budget. All things considered, it is undeniable that raising taxes would

causes

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cause

several negative impacts. Despite it could be a bad thing, increasing taxes still has

it

it is

it's

own benefits.